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Walking and collecting, Yemeni keeps hopes alive in exile
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UNHCR, 23/03/2016
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MARKAZI CAMP, Djibouti, March 23 (UNHCR) – Before the war forced him to flee his home, Abdillahi Bashraheel had two hobbies: he was a long-distance walker, and a coin collector.
The first was a habit he fell into when he was a young roads surveyor in rural Yemen, tramping for hours in the heat to scout the path ahead. It helps him meditate, he says. The second, he does because he "admires…strange things."
The problem is, Abdillahi, who is now 63, is today stuck in a refugee camp in a foreign land, far from his favourite hikes. His coin collection – "thousands and thousands of coins" – he left behind in Aden when he fled.
Nonetheless, he still walks, around and around the camp. "Twenty kilometres a day," he says. "Twenty thousand metres." And along the way, he still collects, finding discarded oddities and objects to decorate his tent and its small, dusty garden.
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Asylum through the eyes of Fatuma, aged two
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UNHCR, 01/12/2015
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Two-and-a-half-year-old Fatuma lives with parents, two brothers, grandmother and auntie in a bare one-bedroom apartment in Djibouti city. They left Yemen in March to escape the war, landing in Obock and later moving to Djibouti city so that Fatuma’s brother Abdulaziz, who is gravely ill, could be closer to hospital.
Fatuma is bewildered. Why did they leave their home in Yemen and go to Obock? Life in a tent, with high temperatures and no running water is hostile for anyone, let alone a two-and-a-half-year-old child.
Soon after Fatuma and her extended family arrived in Obock in March, the family was split. Abdulaziz was taken to hospital in Djibouti right away, and stayed there for two months with his father and auntie. In May Fatuma, her mother, younger brother and grandmother moved to Djibouti city to join her father, aunt and Abdulaziz. However other members of their extended ... |
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Yemeni refugees seek shelter in Djibouti (Photo Essay)
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Oualid Khelifi, Al Jazeera, 14/11/2015
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Markazi refugee camp, Djibouti - As fighting intensifies in Yemen, over 120,000 people have fled since April. Around 30,000 of those have sought safety across the Gulf of Aden in Djibouti.
Since late September, the population of Markazi camp near the Djiboutian coastal town of Obock has quadrupled to more than 2,600 Yemeni refugees, including civilians who were wounded in the war and require medical treatment.
Many refugees are women and children, who have arrived traumatised and in need of psychological support. As the camp expands, so too does the need to develop community centres and other facilities to help refugees heal and rebuild their lives - but humanitarian agencies say there is a dire lack of funding.
View full photo essay at: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2015/11/yemeni-refugees-seek-shelter-djibouti-151113094929289.html... |
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The fate of Yemenis in Djibouti city
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UNHCR, 01/11/2015
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In Djibouti city, Yemenis who have fled the war in their country live in limbo. Should they remain in Djibouti, uncertain of the future, searching for ever-elusive jobs? Seek to resettle in another country? Or return to Yemen? UNHCR spoke to a group of them.
According to the International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government, 29,487 people of mixed nationalities arrived in Djibouti between 26 March and 27 October 2015. They included 15,761 Yemeni nationals, 11,822 transiting third country nationals and 1,904 Djiboutian returnees. In the same period UNHCR registered 5,337 refugees in Markazi camp in Obock, 5,150 of whom arrived from Yemen.
In August 2015 the UNHCR Regional Refugee Coordinator (RRC) for the Yemen situation, Ms Claire Bourgeois, visited an association that assists Yemenis who fled from their country and are living in Djibouti town. Her aim was to... |
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Djibouti: Adjusting to life in Markazi refugee camp
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UNHCR, 30/10/2015
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Two young Yemeni women who have developed a close friendship in Markazi camp recount how the conflict has turned their lives upside down. From university students with promising futures to camp dwellers, Khadija and Hannah (names changed to preserve privacy) try to rebuild their lives.
Khadija was in her second year of university, studying English when the war broke out. She and her family hoped that they would remain safe in their home in Aden, but in May 2015, the security situation deteriorated and electricity and water supplies were cut off from their homes. That was when the family decided to leave.
They came to Djibouti with many people on board a large Pakistani boat which had been carrying supplies to Yemen. After staying for 11 days at the transit centre at the port in Obock, the eight family members registered with UNHCR and were transferred to Markazi camp. This was the... |
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The suspended lives of Yemeni refugee children in Djibouti
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UNHCR, 27/10/2015
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As at 27 October 2015, statistics from the International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government put the number of people of mixed nationalities who have arrived in Djibouti from Yemen since 26 March at 29,487. These include 15,761 Yemeni nationals, as well 11,822 transiting third country nationals and 1,904 Djiboutian returnees.
Children under 18 make up roughly 34% of the 15,761 Yemeni nationals in Djibouti. They are deeply affected by the events that forced them to flee their country and the uncertainty that has now become part of their daily lives.
While 5,150 of the Yemenis have registered as refugees and live in Markazi camp in Obock, others are in Djibouti city, often living off their savings and registering as refugees when they run out of means of support.
On 26 August the UNHCR Regional Refugee Coordinator (RRC) for the Yemen situation paid visits to... |
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Coalition warplanes pound Yemen rebel positions
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Al jazeera - AFP, 13/09/2015
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Saudi-led coalition warplanes heavily bombarded rebel positions across the Yemeni capital, witnesses said, ahead of expected UN-mediated peace talks.
Saturday's strikes hit arms depots and military camps in the rebel-held capital's northern districts.
Warplanes also struck the rebel-held presidential residence in Sanaa's southeast and nearby arms depots, witnesses said.
There were no immediate details on any casualties.
In the eastern Marib province, where the coalition has been focusing its operations in recent days, pro-government military sources said air strikes hit two separate rebel convoys.
Military officials on the Saudi border told the AFP news agency that 20 more coalition military vehicles crossed into oil-rich Marib, following at least 40 similar vehicles a day earlier.
The reinforcements are being sent in prep... |
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Yemen receives over 10,000 new arrivals by sea since start of conflict in March
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UNHCR, 14/08/2015
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GENEVA, July 14 (UNHCR) – Thousands of people have been tricked into going to Yemen since the start of the current conflict in March, according to the latest figures made available by the UN refugee agency on Tuesday (July 14).
UNHCR Yemen Representative Johannes van der Klaauw said the agency had recorded some 10,500 new arrivals, a mix of returning refugees and those fleeing conflicts elsewhere in the region, to Yemen since the start of the conflict on March 26, but said thousands had also fled the country.... |
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